How To Use Youtube And Other Apps At The Same Time Iphone

(Pocket-lint) - On iPhone, most music apps let you play music in the groundwork. After all, they'd be virtually useless if they couldn't. For video apps that'south not the case which - once more - makes sense, since yous can't watch videos with your iPhone locked and the phone in standby.

With YouTube, the app is a sort-of 2-in-one platform that offers videos and, with that, music videos which is a surprisingly popular way to consume music these days. You can detect podcast episodes and concerts on at that place too.

YouTube's music streaming service explained

Now, YouTube does let you use its video app to play music in the background but there'due south a caveat: you lot need to be a Premium subscriber in guild to take advantage of that characteristic. Of class, you can apply the YouTube Music app, but again, you need to be a subscriber for that too.

Thankfully, there's a workaround that enables you to play music from YouTube videos for gratuitous, in the background, and it's actually not hard to do. Watch our quick video below or follow the written guide underneath.

How to play YouTube music in the background on iPhone

The play a joke on is to use your phone's default browser, Safari:

Open Safari and go to 'YouTube.com'
Now search for the music video you want to listen to
Tap the 'Aa' icon in the address/search bar
Cull 'request desktop site' from the drib downwards menu
Hit 'play' on your video

At this betoken when you go back to your home screen, or lock your telephone, the music volition stop becuase the video stops playing. Nonetheless, yous can easily become it playing once more, without going back to the browser.

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Driblet down Command Center (or pull it upwards from the bottom if you have an iPhone with TouchID)
Discover the music playback widget
It should have the song track labelled on it from the browser
Hitting the play push button

Once you've washed that and y'all drop downwards Control Middle, you should see the choice to play the music again. Once it'southward playing, yous can lock your phone, and play and pause it from the lockscreen command or just become about your business using other apps on the phone.

To play it while the phone is locked, simply lock your phone and you should see a music widget command on the lock screen. Tap play on that and music continues in the groundwork.

It's worth noting, if you're in a playlist or queue, it doesn't seem to automatically continue to the next vocal, so you do need to re-open Safari to choose a new vocal when i ends. Thankfully, YouTube is full of long compilations and alive concerts, and you can easily find 'videos' over an hour long.

Writing past Cam Bunton.

Source: https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/news/youtube/152006-youtube-music-background-iphone

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